Abstract This paper discusses whether Canada serves its citizens well. It starts with Pat Capponi's account of near homelessness, and carries on with a UofLethbridge think-tank and the author's comments on deepening and permanent Canadian poverty and homelessness. It continues to discuss neo-liberal economics and the approach of the government to the issues involved.
From the Paper "Revelations on Poverty in a Canadian City. Canada serves its citizens very well, unless they should fall into poverty, as Pat Capponi's volume, From The Poverty Line, is able to describe. (1997) Capponi describes in detail how it is that a person can live very simply, and due to events beyond their control, find that homelessness is likely. She is referring to a period of four months in 1995, after hoarding food and being very careful with money, that she is simply between jobs and not knowing where her next rent money will materialize."
